Photography For Real Estate

For years Cactus radio triggers have been the cheapest radio flash triggers for use in manual flash triggering but it looks like Meike has managed to make some triggers that are slightly cheaper and have several features that appear to be a a significant improvement over Cactus triggers. Vince SeStefano has done a nice little [...]

Long time PFRE reader, contributor and Tasmanian real estate photographer Milton Lowe just sent me and article from his local Sunday Tasmanian newspaper that quotes him explaining the benefits of real estate photography. In the article Milton points out that he has been doing real estate photography for 5 years after being a real estate agent for [...]

It’s been a while since I’ve talked about pfretour.com. First of all, for those new readers readers let me recap what pfretour.com is all about. In many markets, independent real estate photographers need to have some method of supplying tours that can compete with the combined tour and photography packages that the big tour companies like [...]

I ran across this cool little tip for shooting video. Most real estate video shooters don’t have the time or equipment to do dolly shots and certainly not crane shots but this little technique can add some class to your property video. For those of you that don’t know about dollies and cranes, they are the way [...]

I think special recognition is in order for Huffington Post because Estella Sneider just sent me an example of coverage that a listing she shot recently for Mauricio Umansky just off sunset strip in LA. The Huffington Post article actually has a link in the article to Estella’s website. I’ve ranted before about the fact [...]

Today is the 20th birthday of the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first browser and web server and ran both on his desk at CERN in 1990. I can clearly remember the first time, sometime during 1993, that I installed the Mosaic browser on my PC at Boeing and first started clicking on hyperlinks. [...]

Every time DxO comes out with a new version of DxO Optics Pro I spend some time with the trial version to see how the new version works. In the past I’ve never purchased it because it felt like it has a lot overlap with Lightroom and its user interface never felt right to me. [...]

Thanks to ‘Kris’ Bjarne Haug for putting me on to another cool way to look at flickr. It’s called Flickriver.com. Flickriver is a web-based Flickr viewer that allows viewing hundreds of flickr photos quickly and easily, in one seamless “river of photos” view, never needing to hit next to load the next page. It also allows [...]

Thanks to Saul in Suffolk Park, NSW for the link to this article in the Sydney Morning Herald about the 5 minute property video that listing agent Ross Savas of Kay & Burton paid $200,000 for to sell the Ilyuka, Portsea mansion near Melbourne, AU. This is proof that top agents are willing to spend [...]

Back in July of 2010, I did a post on how Alberto and Mia Dominguez were finding that their hard work in building their real estate photography business in Nanaimo, BC was paying off. Mia just sent me a link to their new website that they are launching. What a stunning set of images! Very [...]

Dan Abraham, a real estate photographer in Prince George, BC offered to let me share his successful technique of getting more business by helping your agent clients get more listings. If you are a regular PFRE reader you will recognize Dan’s name from a post I did on area listing sites to promote your photography [...]

Brett Clements recently showed me  a several videos from a series he recently did celebrating his return to Sydney and Melbourne after 5 years of being restricted from shooting there by a business agreement. Brett says, “Some months ago, I re-aquired all of Propvid Australia and was commissioned to return to where it all started [...]

Back in September we featured a video by Jacob McNeil and his fiance Jaimie, young photographers in Nanaimo, BC. Jacob just sent me another of their recent videos. I enjoy Jacob and Jaimie’s work, it has a light straight forward feel to it and in slightly over a minute they have distilled down a feeling [...]

I just sent download links for an update to Scott Hargis’s eBook to everyone that’s purchased that eBook. This update has no content updates, just updates to punctuation errors, and a few spacing fixes. Nothing really earth shaking unless you are an English major. I’m letting everyone know that I’ve sent this update because I’m [...]

I’ve had several discussions this week and last that suggest that some people in real estate photography need some help analyzing their costs of being in business. I think there are many beginning real estate photographers that don’t know what the lower limit is for what they can work for. $99/shoot may make sense in [...]

Guest post by Lee Jinks of McAllen, TX: Pole Aerial Photography (PAP) has gained popularity over recent years, but until lately, entry into PAP required a major investment and/or some serious engineering.  Today there are various low cost products available to those wanting to attempt PAP.  The most economical approach is with a low cost [...]

Fred Light, recently started a discussion in the PFRE flickr discussion group that is worth highlighting. Fred’s post points out a tuaw.com review of the Square credit card reader designed to make it easier than ever before to for individuals and small businesses to take credit card payment anywhere without having to have a merchant account. This product [...]

Thanks to Christopher Bradbury of Glenwood Road Studios, LLC in Weston, CT for pointing out this article on the StyledStaged & Sold blog site of REALTOR Mag. This article is an interesting commentary on the recent study where Tim Ellis at Redfin showed more data that shows what anyone in real estate that was paying attention already [...]

The last couple of days I’ve been talking to Robert Barr of Washington Home Tours in Woodinville, WA, who is launching his new real estate photography business. Robert graduated from the University of Washington in the summer of 2009 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree. Robert has been shooting for an unnamed big tour [...]

When purchased my Canon 5DMkII  I was I was naive about video. I didn’t realize that when shooting video in LiveView autofocus is disabled so you have to focus manually. Woa, big surprise and what a challenge. Luckily, when shooting most real estate subjects you’re using a wide angle lens with a lot of depth of [...]